Chess Programs for Linux Ubuntu

I just switched  to Linux Ubuntu and I was hoping I could have some recomendations for a good chess program to play against and store my games in that runs on linux.

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Aquarium is optimised for Wine

i use ubuntu

Welcome to Linux!

Is there many players here using Ubuntu or any other linux distos?

I am done with windows, linux offers a great alternative without viruses, and license fees. 

Scid vs. PC is great.

what do you use

I find that Shredder and Stockfish work pretty well under Linux.

About the distro debate ... it will never end as long as there are more than one distro available. It is not wise to categorize them like "distro for the stupid" or "distro for the genius" or even "distro for zombies". You have the pen, you can write your own page.

What I like of Ubuntu is all the support behind it. I mean Canonical is doing a great job to put Linux in the forefront of the market. Ubuntu Touch for tablet is coming soon. Their cloud service UbuntuOne is very useful too. That said it's a great community and I can't wait for the new LTS Ubuntu 14.04.

Xubuntu and Kubuntu are nice forks as well, whitin the Ubuntu family and enjoying full support of the community.

I've tried linux Mint and Fedora as well, very decent distros but I keep coming back to Ubuntu or Xubuntu.

It's good as a first distro because it's harder to break things.

Some people may not like the 'commercialization'' of Ubuntu but I see it as a good thing. That's how Linux will reach more people. Today only the initiated know about Linux, while Microsoft and Apple vastly dominate the PC world. Canonical is attempting to put Ubuntu, as an open source OS, in the forefront of the market not only on PC but on tablet and smartphone as well.

But to play with the big corporation you need to have the ressources.

Linux is about freedom, but one needs to know that liberty is even possible.

Debian Linux is more difficult to install for a desktop than Ubuntu or Mint, but Debian Linux is the hard work from volunteers related to a non profit setup.

Indeed! I simply never succeeded installing Deban, let alone find the iso on their website. Not so convenient for the average Joe.

I found a German linux distro that is actually based on Debian, such as Wheezy and Squeeze, it is called SnowLinux. www.snowlinux.de

It's much more easier to fetch the iso and install.

Commercialization plays havoc with security. I'm using old releases of Ubuntu to avoid the horror it has become recently with all this 3rd-party stuff. Likely I'll be moving to Debian soon, when I have the time.

I recently switched from Wwindows to Ubuntu and I am quite happy. It seems that Chessbase works under Wine, so that will probably be my first choise. I haven't evaluated all functions yet; I don't know if the videos work properly but if I can play through games i am happy.

Scid + Stockfish seems OK but the GUI is a bit dated.

Use SCIDvsPC instead of SCID.  Also, check out Scidb, a new gui that supports, pgn, scid, and chessbase database formats, and is quite attractive.

If you want to upgrade the way your scid/scidvspc gui looks, you can download some of my pieces here:

http://gorgonian.weebly.com/scid-vs-pc.html

And see Ed Collins' website for a lot of textures.  Or you can go to the babaschess section of my website and download the texture packs there and convert them to scid format.

switching from Windows but still using Windows Emulation

Welcome to Linux, it is very rewarding albeit challenging! It's nice to hear that more and more people are joining open source world.

I used Ubuntu for a while but now switched back to Windows. I got a new laptop and it seems that the graphic card just don't work well with it. Painful lags and wavy lines while watching streaming videos. I installed the AMD proprietary driver but it didn't solved the problem. That's unfortunate because I think Ubuntu is a nice OS with lots of potentials.

Back to Windows now and experiencing no such problem..

I hope so since at least 95% of all PC sold worldwide are Windows pre-installed. Usually what Linux users do is just purchase one (second-hand or new) and wipe the harddrive to install Linux.

Ubuntu 14.04 support a wide range of hardware, including that of my Asus laptop. Everything worked out of the box: wifi, webcam, bluetooth logitech mouse & speaker. So I have nothing to complain on that regard.

I just couldn't stream any HD video and going full-screen even on low-resolution. It resulted in painful lags and waivy lines n the video. I have tried the latest pepperflah in Chrome/Chromium to no avail.

While searching for a fix I read many thread about issues with ATI Radeo video cards on Ubuntu/Debian. The best solution that have been suggested to me is to replace the open-source driver with the AMD proprietary one. I did just that but it didn't help. The best it achieved is to destroy my Ubuntu splashboot screen with large ugly font.

I am an open-source enthousiam, don't get me wrong. Nearly all my software on my Windows installation are open-source. I think it's the way forward for the computing world. But as an intermediary user who don't have countless of hours to spend on fixing problems, I had to give up on Linux for this time hoping it may yet improve.

I was a Ubuntu user about last five years (sometimes dabbling into Kubuntu as well), but I left Ubuntu after Unity and now exclusively use Linux Mint. Currently I am on Linux Mint 17 and I swear I will never use anything else for my personal use. However, I have also kept Windows because my wife doesn't want to spend fraction of a second in learning a new operating system interface. I am patiently working in converting her, and so far she has started to like the default wallpapers that come with Linux!

As far as chess is concerned, you can use Pychess -- hands down one of the most beautiful interface on chess in any operating system, I feel. It comes with Pychess engine by default, which is enough for me for this life. However, I have also downloaded stockfish and crafty and enjoy two engine play each other. Nobody can beat stockfish, but Crafty does draw against Stockfish sometimes. Problem is, in Linux, you have SF 3, whereas SF is now version 5. Wonder why the SF team does not upgrade the Linux distro.

To create a database and review your games, SCID and ChessX is free to download (I prefer ChessX). However, I would strongly suggest you install wine and run Arena with whatever Engine you want (I have SF5 and Komodo free version for analysis). Sadly Arena is not natively available for Linux.

@eehc: Ubuntu 14 did not recognise my wifi on laptop. Apparently it is yet to work on some realtek drivers. Anyway, did not want to use Ubuntu anyway. Uninstalled. Have you tried the latest Linux Mint? Hats off to developers and I thank them profusely for their love and care.